Definitions for lowly
ˈloʊ lilow·ly

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. humble, low, lowly, modest, smalladjective

   low or inferior in station or quality

   "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

2. junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subalternadjective

   inferior in rank or status

   "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"

3. humble, menial, lowlyadjective

   used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

4. base, baseborn, humble, lowlyadjective

   of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

   "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. lowlyadverb

   In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

2. lowlyadverb

   In a low condition; meanly.

3. lowlyadjective

   Not high; not elevated in place; low.

4. lowlyadjective

   Low in rank or social importance.

5. lowlyadjective

   Not lofty or sublime; humble.

6. lowlyadjective

   Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Lowlyadjective

   Etymology: from low.

   1. Humble; meek; mild.

   Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart. Matt. xi. 29.

   He did bend to us a little, and put his arms abroad: we of our parts saluted him in a very lowly and submissive manner, as looking that from him we should receive sentence of life or death. Francis Bacon, New Atlantis.

   With cries they fill’d the holy fane;
   Then thus with lowly voice Ilioneus began. Dryden.

   The heavens are not pure in his sight, and he charges even his angels with folly; with how lowly a reverence must we bow down our souls before so excellent a being, and adore a nature so much superior to our own. John Rogers, Sermons.

   2. Mean; wanting dignity; not great.

   For from the natal hour distinctive names,
   One common right the great and low’y claims. Alexander Pope.

   3. Not lofty; not sublime.

   For all who read, and reading not disdain,
   These rural poems, and their lowly strain,
   The name of Varus oft inscrib’d shall see. John Dryden, Silenus.

2. Lowlyadverb

   Etymology: from low.

   1. Not highly; meanly; without grandeur; without dignity.

   I will shew myself highly fed, and lowly taught; I know my business is but to the court. William Shakespeare.

   ’Tis better to be lowly born,
   And range with humble livers in content,
   Than to be perk’d up in a glist’ring grief,
   And wear a golden sorrow. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   2. Humbly; meekly; modestly.

   Heav’n is for thee too high
   To know what passes there; be lowly wise:
   Think only what concerns thee, and thy being. John Milton.

   Another crowd
   Preferr’d the same request, and lowly bow’d. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Lowlyadjective

   not high; not elevated in place; low

2. Lowlyadjective

   low in rank or social importance

3. Lowlyadjective

   not lofty or sublime; humble

4. Lowlyadjective

   having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride

5. Lowlyadverb

   in a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly

6. Lowlyadverb

   in a low condition; meanly

7. Etymology: [Low, a. + -ly.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lowly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lowly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lowly in a Sentence

1. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

   The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao.

2. Lee Philip Rudofsky:

   It's very hard for me to figure out what these courts mean when they say don't take race into account a lot but take race into account, i understand what they've said, but it sounds a whole lot more like a system we've set up to say something and then not really do what we're saying and I don't know how to resolve that ... I'm just a lowly district judge, and I don't get to change what the Supreme Court has said. But it strikes me that there really doesn't seem to be a lot of room between don't let race predominate but take race into account.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

4. Alfred Austin:

   So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

5. William Cowper:

   O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

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